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Subject: Re: generation numbers
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:52:51 -0400
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On 07/07/2011 04:31 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jeff King<peff@peff.net>  writes:
>>
>>> You could "cheat" and instead of storing the sha1 of a blob object in
>>> the notes tree, use the lower 32 bits to store an actual value. I don't
>>> think that currently breaks any assumptions in the notes code, but it
>>> definitely is against the intent of it.
>>
>> I highly suspect that it would break fsck rather badly.  You may not even
>> be able to repack a repository with such a notes tree.
>
> Well, we could (ab)use file mode to mark that what would be sha1 actually
> stores fixed-width content of a file, like we do with submodules.
>
> This technique is I think quite similar in idea to filesystems storing
> contents of small files in file inode, isn't it?
>

Are the benefits really worth all these hacks?